Soft Tissue Trauma

Treatment

100

DAILY TRIPLE 

What does the acronym RICE stand for?

Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate, Splint 

200

What do we do to help reduce swelling?

Ice

300

What two general principles do we need to keep in mind for open wounds?

1. Control the bleeding

2. Keep them as clean as possible

400

First step in treating a facial injury on a stable, conscience patient

Reassure them 

500

First consideration of a puncture would?

Potential depth of wound

Definitions

100

Define Hemostasis

 the body’s natural process of stopping bleeding after a blood vessel is injured. It’s the first stage of wound healing and happens almost immediately after an injury.

200

DAILY QUADRUPLE 

Define Neovascularization

the process of forming new blood vessels, usually in response to tissue injury, hypoxia (low oxygen), or healing needs.

300

Define Epithelialization

is the process by which new epithelial cells (skin cells) grow and migrate across a wound to cover and heal it.

400

Define Collagen Synthesis

The biological process where the body produces collagen, a key structural protein found in skin, bones, tendons, and connective tissues.

500

DAILY DOUBLE 

Define Paronychia

Paronychia is an infection or inflammation of the skin around the fingernails or toenails, typically affecting the nail folds

Burns

100

Entire trunk of an adult is what percentage?

36%

200

Posterior, anterior right arm and anterior of left arm are what percent?

13.5%

300

What does their acronym TBSA stand for?

Total Body Surface Area

400

burns to the face, anterior left arm, genitalia, and posterior right leg in an adult patient equates to what percent?

19%

500

Who first published the “Rule of 9”?

Alexander Burns Wallace in 1951.

Soft tissue

100

DAILY DOUBLE

What is the largest organ of the body?

The Skin

200

How many layers to the skin are there and what are they called?

3. Epidermis, Dermis, Subcutaneous

300

What is another name for the subcutaneous layer of the skin?

Hypodermis 

400

DAILY QUADRUPLE 

What are the three ways that skin can be injured?

1. Blunt injury 

2. Penetrating injury

3. Burn

500

Although death is not common from soft tissue injury, what two things could potentially lead to death from a soft tissue injury?

1. Uncontrolled Bleeding

2. Local or systemic infection

Tension Lines

100

Lacerations Parallel to tension lines may remain ____

Closed, of course

200

Large wounds may be ____

Pulled Open, duh 

300

Smaller lacerations that are perpendicular to tension lines will remain ____

Open

400

Static tension is found where?

Over areas with limited movement

500

DAILY TRIPLE

Dynamic tension is found where?

Over muscle.